Big Hero 6 is the 54th Disney Animated Canon film, inspired by the superhero comic book series of the same name by Man of Action with Marvel Comics.note which became a Disney subsidiary in 2009. It is Disney's first animated film featuring Marvel characters.note Marvel's higher ups served as creative consultants but were otherwise uninvolved with the production. Interestingly after years of dabbling in fantasy, mythology, and even video games; without counting Pixar'sThe Incredibles, this is their animated canon's first superhero film.

In fictional San Fransokyo (a portmanteau of San Francisco and Tokyo in form as well as name), robotics prodigy brothers Hiro and Tadashi Hamada live with their aunt over a coffee and bakery shop. Tadashi attends the prestigious university San Fransokyo Tech and wants his brother, who spends his time hustling illegal bot-fighting, to do the same. Tadashi invents a huggable learning robot named Baymax for assisting in healthcare and hopes it can be used in hospitals in the future, but a sad fate halts that dream. When a threat to the city arises caused by the mysterious criminal Yokai, Hiro upgrades Baymax into a fighting, flying machine and recruits Tadashi's four best friends to form the ultimate superhero team to stop him.

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20 Minutes into the Future: A banner marking the 95th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge on one of the streetcars puts the film as being set around 2032. While there are Metropolis/Blade Runner-style skyscrapers, giant turbines floating in the sky, and robots are common enough that nobody looks twice at the sight of Baymax, the neighborhoods look like old brownstones and the cars are mostly boxy subcompacts from the late '80s to early '90s, including the one that Wasabi drives.

Accidental Murder: Tadashi Hamada wasn't meant to die in the explosion, it just happened when he tried to save Callaghan. Not that Callaghan has regrets about it.

Acid-Trip Dimension: The world between the portals is a nebulous space filled with beautiful, technicolor cloud-like structures based on fractal geometry.

Adaptational Nationality: The characters go from Japanese to American, albeit living in an alternate universe version of America with a heavy Japanese influence.

Adapted Out: Silver Samurai and Sunfire do not appear in this movie, as they are both X-Men allies and the film rights to the X-Men franchise are owned by 20th Century Fox, not Disney or Marvel. Not that they would fit in anyway, since the film's world is now a more tech-based sci-fi world, and mutants with superpowers would seem very out of place.

Aerith and Bob: Subverted. There are names like Cass, Abigail, Fred, Hiro, and Tadashi alongside GoGo, Honey Lemon, and Wasabi—but the latter three are nicknames. Wasabi makes it clear he doesn't particularly like his.

Agony of the Feet: A piece of Hiro's fighting robot falls off and lands squarely on his foot, with the usual result.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played with but ultimately inverted, with Baymax disobeying an order from Hiro to prevent harm to others.

All There in the Manual: A good chunk of the characters' backstories are only mentioned in pre-release materials as well as the Alternate History of San Francisco. Also, antagonist Yokai is never named in the film. They mention his real name, but not the "Yokai" codename. It only shows up in the subtitles the first time he talks.

Alternate History: While not stated in the film, Word of God is that the movie is set in an alternate timeline where, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the city was rebuilt by Japanese immigrants using techniques that allow movement and flexibility in a seismic event. Afterwards it was renamed San Fransokyo due to the mix of Japanese and American architecture.

Always with You: Baymax tells this to Hiro just before he sacrifices himself to allow Hiro and the transport pod to return to normal space. It turns out to be literally true as it's revealed that Baymax hid his primary healthcare chip in the rocket fist he uses to push Hiro to safety allowing him to rebuild and restore Baymax later on.

American Kirby Is Hardcore: Rare inversion. The American trailer focuses more on action and comedy, while the Japanese trailer delves more into the drama of the story. This has the resulting effect of Japanese filmgoers being unprepared for the amount of action found within the movie.

Americasia: San Fransokyo. The creators confirm it is San Francisco during an alternate future rebuild after the 1906 earthquake by Japanese immigrants.

Downplayed in the film itself, which keeps the traditional Disney style for the most part, though there are still hints that it's influenced by anime (Hiro's hair comes to mind). However, as far as marketing is concerned, several toys and plushies◊note manufactured by Bandai, better known for their toys for the Gundam and Super Sentai franchises are made ostensibly in this style and it even has its own official Manga adaptation through Yen Press.

The Creative Closing Credits definitely apply here, as the characters are drawn in typical anime and manga format with Marvel comics pastels and printing.

Artificial Gill: Downplayed. One exhibit at the SFTT Showcase is a man underwater breathing through such a device.

Artistic License — Physics: When Wasabi uses his plasma blades to cut a circle through the metal door to gain access to the secret base, there's no physical reason why the door section would slide forward and fall into the hallway. The entrance is on level ground and Baymax, the only one with the physical strength to realistically accomplish this is shown at the back of the team when the door falls away.

Black Site: The entire island where the teleportation experiment was carried out gets quarantined after the accident. It is not clear whether Abigail's death was classified and thus not public knowledge.

Bloodsport: A family-friendly version with the bot fights Hiro is partaking in.

Blue and Orange Morality: Baymax's sole motivation is the survival and physical health of his patients, making him hard to work with at first. He becomes much more co-operative when he adds Mental Health to the list and is convinced that helping Hiro will improve his mental health. He also considers just about everyone he encounters a potential patient, even scanning the Big Bad and determining (among other things) his blood type during their first encounter.

Broken Pedestal: When Hiro meets Professor Callaghan, he clearly idolizes him. Which makes the realization that Callaghan was responsible for Tadashi's death even harder to take. The others feel the same way, given their shocked expressions.

But Not Too Foreign: A rare non-character example with the city of San Fransokyo, a mash-up of California and Japan.

When Hiro first meets Baymax, he suggests to Tadashi that Baymax would charge faster if he used supercapacitors instead of a lithium-ion battery. Later in the movie, Baymax recharges in mere seconds—apparently Tadashi took his brother's advice!

At the end of the movie, Hiro hurls himself into the Portal because "someone needs help" despite the possibility of it exploding, just like Tadashi did when he ran into the fire.

Baymax gives Hiro his I Cannot Self-Terminate instructions when they first meet. Those words come back in the climax.

"Tadashi is here," said by Baymax. He has a video of Tadashi in his memory, which he uses to snap Hiro out of his Heroic B.S.O.D..

"Megabot, Destroy", is the command Hiro gives to his bot-fighting robot at the beginning and become downright chilling when he later says "Do it, Baymax. Destroy him!" as he unleashes Baymax on Callaghan.

"Last hug."

"Try looking at things from a different angle," said whenever Hiro is trying to find a solution to his problems.

"Flying makes me a better healthcare companion" First posed as a question by Baymax and later as an affirmation of knowing what Hiro needs him to do.

"I'm not giving up on you." Spoken by Tadashi to Hiro when Hiro is trying to come up with a presentation for the tech-show, and again by Tadashi to Baymax when he was trying to iron out the bugs in Baymax's programming.

Fred always seems to enjoy doing this and by the climax, Wasabi even joins in with his "Green Blades of Fury".

Hiro does this whenever Baymax attacks, though it's justified because Baymax doesn't know when to attack, so Hiro is giving him instructions on what to do. Until the climax when Baymax masters the timing and begins calling his own attacks.

In the UK release of the movie, the two technicians who detect that something has gone awry with Project Silent Sparrow are voiced by Danisnotonfire and Amazing Phil.

Cast of Snowflakes: Thanks to Disney's new Hyperion rendering engine, not only does every named character have a unique face, but so does every unnamed character.

Chase Scene: The team's first encounter with Yokai, before they've built their super-suits, ends with them fleeing in a car with Yokai pursuing. Starts out very comedic, with Fred geeking out and Wasabi insisting on obeying red lights and road rules, but gets more serious and dramatic as it progresses.

Tadashi's advice to "look at things from a different angle" initially helps Hiro figure out what to make to get into a science college. In the final battle, it helps the heroes escape Yokai's clutches when he has each of them cornered.

Baymax's medical scanner gets upgraded with a much higher range, so they can use it to locate the Big Bad. It's what allows him to realize that Abigail Callaghan is still alive inside the Krei portal.

Hiro's Megabot in the beginning of the movie, which would inspire him to create the microbots.

Chekhov's Gunman: There are only 14 named characters in the ENTIRE film. 15 if you include Stan Lee in the stinger. Now subtract the titular six big heroes, and the mystery villain himself. Now remove the four who are obviously supporting characters or extras. That leaves exactly three characters who could be the villain. The first guy is Tadashi, would require some extremely out-of-character justification to make him the villain, and he very definitelydies heroically early on. The second guy is Alistair Krei, who is blatantly implied to be a bad guy through the whole movie. The third guy is Professor Callaghan, who exists only to be idolized by the hero and warn him that, no, really, that second guy is REALLY bad, and then he dies as well. Except his body isn't seen. As a result, he is the ultimate villain.

Chekhov's Skill: Hiro's friends' areas of scientific expertise are all shown in their introductory scene—GoGo's maglev bike, Wasabi's plasma laser cutter, and Honey's chemical know-how—and all of these end up as the focuses of their respective suits. Fred, on the other hand, has no scientific knowledge, but he sure knows how to spin a sign, which becomes useful in the climax.

Clark Kenting: A downplayed example. At the end of the movie, a news story reports "the whole city of San Fransokyo is asking, who are these heroes"? While it is true that except for Fred, none of the other team members completely hide their face, it is Justified in that the team is still so new that they don't stand out from the millions of other people in the city and their various headgear does partially obscure their faces.

Conversation Cut: After Tadashi shows his lab to Hiro, they stand in front of the building with Hiro asking: How do I get in? — Cut to the next scene at home where Tadashi tells Hiro about the student showcase, as if they couldn't have talked about it on their way there.

Cool, But Inefficient: Played with. There appears to be no functional difference between Yokai's kabuki mask and the headband Hiro designed for the first batch of microbots. Because of its larger surface area and predominately white color, the mask serves as a bigger target for Yokai's opponents to exploit and seems to be knocked off relatively easily during his first encounter with Big Hero 6. However, it also shields the villain's identity while providing an sinister kabuki face and during Yokai's later encounter at Krei industries it's shown sliding up Iron Man-style suggesting it's been upgraded and not as easily knocked off.

Cool Down Hug: Hiro, still clearly upset with himself for wanting revenge against Callaghan, apologizes to the others for going off the deep end. GoGo surprises everyone by shutting Hiro up with a hug, showing that she forgives him.

Hiro at the beginning of the movie is using his superior robotics to trounce other bot fighters and grab up the winnings. Tadashi convinces him to put his smarts to use on something productive.

At first, we are led to believe that the Big Bad Yokai is Krei, which leads to the question why he would go through the trouble of stealing Hiro's microbots and start using them for supervillain schemes instead of patenting them and selling them. However, this is subverted later on when the true identity of Yokai is revealed as Callaghan, who is motivated by revenge, not profit.

Tadashi invokes this in a subtle manner when, instead of taking Hiro to another bot-fighting, he takes him to his lab at San Fransokyo Tech and introduces him to Professor Callaghan and the other students in his "nerd lab", and then shows him Baymax. He hopes to inspire Hiro to do more with his life than compete in illegal bot-fighting, and by the time they leave the lab, Hiro makes it his goal to attend San Fransokyo Tech.

During the visit, Callaghan does the same thing, noting the winning bot-fighting with Hiro's bot is easy, while his course is hard and its students go on to change the world.

Dead Hat Shot: A closeup of Tadashi's baseball cap on the ground after the burning building he has run into explodes.

Death by Irony: Yokai who is seeking vengeance on Krei who is involved with the accidental death of his daughter narrowly avoids this happening to him. When he provokes Hiro into seeking vengeance on Yokai/Callaghan who was involved in the accidental death of Tadashi.

Death by Origin Story: At its core, the film is a Disney Deconstruction of both the hero and villain variants of this trope. Hiro is deeply affected by Tadashi's death, not even eating or going to the school he just got accepted to, despite that being what both he and Tadashi wanted. And when he finds out that the person (Callaghan) Tadashi died trying to save not only survived, but coldly dismisses Tadashi's heroic effort, Hiro loses it and tries to kill Callaghan immediately afterwards. For Callaghan, even though Abigail turns out to still be alive, her perceived death is enough to turn him into a revenge driven supervillain who has no regard for the people he hurts along his path of revenge. The only difference is that Hiro has the support of his friends and family to keep him from going through with revenge, while Callaghan has no one and thus is not as easily convinced to give it up.

Death Glare: Tadashi gives Hiro one at the beginning of the movie when they're both arrested. Hiro does one too, when Callaghan says that Tadashi's death was his own fault.

Death Is Such an Odd Thing: Baymax is momentarily perplexed by how a young man in good physical health like Tadashi could suddenly die.

Detachment Combat: Hiro's battle robot in the beginning appears to be easily bisected in the first round. In the second, it pulls itself together, then pulls itself apart to wrap around the opposing robot and unscrew its arms.

Diabolus ex Machina: When Hiro and Baymax are helping Abigail out of the portal dimension, one last chunk of debris that they didn't see coming crashes into them, disabling Baymax's rocket boosters and forcing him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.

Hiro as an impetuous youth seems to run on this trope; in his Establishing Character Moment, he enters a dangerous bot fighting tournament and nearly gets the tar beaten out of him for winning when he hustles the bot-fighting champion.

Callaghan given that he is doing an Indy Ploy from the moment Hiro reveals his microbots. He didn't consider that Hiro would track him down, or that the teenager would try to kill him once learning half of the truth. Also, he destroys Krei Tech Industries in broad daylight, and unmasks himself to Krei. All of this leads to him getting arrested.

The team going to Akuma after only practicing individually on Heathcliff. When they fight Yokai, they keep getting into each other's way while attempting to unmask him because they failed to do any training as a team.

Disney Death: At the climax, Baymax sacrifices himself to save Hiro and the person they're rescuing. He's lost forever in the void—except he gave Hiro the chip containing his programming, memory, and consciousness, so Hiro can build him a new body and bring him back.

Dramatic Unmask: When Yokai loses his mask and his true identity is finally revealed.

Drunk on Milk: When Baymax is losing energy, his body starts deflating and he moves, walks, and talks as if he's incredibly drunk.

Dude, Not Funny!: invoked Hiro has this reaction when Tadashi tells him that his fly was down for his entire presentation.

Easily Forgiven: After Baymax helps Hiro get over his need for revenge, he sees the error of his ways and goes to apologize to the rest of the team. He's barely even began when Go-Go hugs him and assures him that they're all going to help him take Callaghan down the right way.

Easter Egg: One of Fred's comics is published by "DPIX (Disney Pictures) Comics".

Edible Theme Naming: Wasabi, GoGo Tomago (corruption of Japanese tamago), and Honey Lemon. The cat's name is Mochi. The odd nature of them is lampshaded by Hiro; Tadashi mentions the names being given by Fred. Wasabi's in particular came from a Never Live It Down incident, while the origins of the ladies' respective nicknames goes unsaid.

Enhance Button: Security footage was drastically magnified to reveal plot sensitive information. More reasonable than most cases of this trope as it was a state of the art research facility with expensive cameras.

Fred's speculation that Alistair Krei is Yokai was made via a mix of Genre Savvy smarts and circumstantial evidence. Krei is not the Big Bad himself, but Fred is partially correct that Krei was connected to events.

Et Tu, Brute?: The team is shocked at the reveal that Big Bad turns out to be Professor Callaghan their highly respected teacher at the institute of technology.

Eureka Moment: While trying to come up with a project to demonstrate at the student expo, Hiro notices his battle-bot, which is composed of three units that are magnetically bound together. He comes up with the idea of constructing millions of miniature versions of his battle-bot units, which he calls "microbots".

Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: Played with; while the rest of San Fransokyo looks like early 21st century America, Baymax invokes this trope with his all-white body, minimalist design, and rounded surfaces. (He's more cuddly than your average Apple product, though.) The San Fransokyo Tech labs also have a similar look, albeit a little more colorful.

Evil Makeover: The microbots themselves. When Hiro demonstrates their use, the batch has a gray scheme and they reform themselves into various hard architectural shapes, emphasizing their use as beneficial machines. Yokai's collection, however, is all-encompassing black, stretches and spreads, and generally comes off more alien and menacing.

Face Palm: Hiro adopts this pose at the end of the first trailer after his attempt to suit up Baymax ends in failure.

Failure Montage: Hiro watches video footage of Tadashi working on Baymax but failing each time until he finally succeeds.

Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: Played for Laughs. Tadashi tosses an oversized helmet on Hiro during the initial escape from the disgruntled bot-fighters. Later, the ever-helpful Baymax gently advises that Hiro put on his seat belt while they're in the midst of a car Chase Scene, and buckles it for him.

Feedback Rule: When Hiro insecurely begins his microbot demonstration, he gets a harsh feedback from the microphone.

Flashback Cut: When Callaghan explains how he escaped the explosion using the microbots, there is a quick flashback to the scene.

Fly-at-the-Camera Ending: The entire Big Hero 6 team does this at the end of the movie just before the title card and a 2D animated version of Hiro and Baymax does this right before The Stinger.

In the scene where Krei tries to buy Hiro's microbot technology, Callaghan comments that he wouldn't trust Krei with such an important technological advancement. Or with anything else. This foreshadows Callaghan's motivation—he did trust Krei with something important, once.

It's funny when Hiro changes the face on his fighting robot from smiley to angry. When he does the same to Baymax, it's not nearly as funny.

The way Baymax catches Hiro when they're tumbling out of a warehouse window. It physically demonstrates Baymax's heroic spirit (and by extension, Tadashi's) showing he considers the life of his patient important enough to risk his own personal well-being. It's the same general sequence of shots as when Baymax protects Hiro from the debris in the portal dimension which leads to Baymax's Heroic Sacrifice.

When Hiro figures out that the fire wasn't an accident, the background music becomes darker, indicating a possible Start of Darkness.

When Baymax first asks "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain?", Hiro quips "Physical? Or emotional?" Later, Hiro says how much Tadashi's death is hurting him, and has to tell Baymax—who senses no physical injuries—that "It's a different kind of hurt." Baymax then downloads data on how to treat patients who are suffering with emotional trauma.

It's established right off that Hiro has a specific gift at taking existing technology and miniaturizing it. His first battle bot miniaturized Callaghan's magnetic bearing servos and much of what he invents in the film is an example of this expertise.

In his first scene, Callaghan talks with Hiro about bot-fighting, and how his daughter used to love it. The relaxed tone of the past-tense conversation leads you to assume that he's implying that this was just a phase she grew out of...

The first scene in Tadashi's lab area shows Baymax's storage case. It mimics the design of Baymax's 2.0 armor, not only including the color scheme, but it is standing on two little legs, has a big midsection and even includes a "helmet" that you can see Baymax's face in.

In the science expo scene, some of the characters are wearing clothes that foreshadow their future. GoGo wears a yellow/black ensemble and Wasabi wears a green/bluish-grey ensemble that match their respective supersuits. Fred's shirt has an image of a kaiju that is the basis for his supersuit and Tadashi is the only one who's wearing a black shirt foreshadowing his death.

On the left side of that background, there is a wanted poster for Flynn Rider as well. And there are likely several in Hiro and Tadashi's room with all the action figures and posters. A prominent one appears to be a large clock using either Gigantor or a Mazinger, though the arms seem to always be showing the same time throughout.

Prince Hans appears again in the training scene as the statue that Baymax destroys with his rocket fist.

One of Fred's throw pillows features the face of Stitch, as does one of the framed photos in Hiro's house. The other pillow features Splodyhead, Stitch's "cousin."

When the gang is talking in Fred's den, there are models of the Marvel villains Black Talon and Orka in the background.

It's easy to miss, but a statue of Olaf can be seen in the city during the flying scene.

At the very end of the scene where Hiro describes his first encounter with Yokai to the police officer, the officer's computer monitor can be seen. He's playing a game of solitaire on it.

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Genre Savvy: Fred identifies and invokes the appropriate comic book tropes involved with masked men trying to kill civilians, though he incorrectly focuses on the Corrupt Corporate Executive being the villain and overlooks the possibility of a Mad Scientist bent on revenge.

When Hiro and Baymax infiltrate the abandoned warehouse, Baymax gets stuck in one of the windows and needs to activate his auto deflate system in order to get in. This results in a clearly recognizable flatulence sound and a creative way for Disney to sneak a fart joke.

Baymax on low battery basically acts like a heavily inebriated human.

Goggles Do Nothing: The girl losing the opening bot fight wears goggles for no apparent reason.

With Tadashi — A fistbump followed by both of them making exploding noises.

With Baymax — Hiro teaches his robot Baymax the fist-bump. Baymax makes an adorable noise when he bumps, as he can't properly make an explosion noise. Instead he goes: 'Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la!

Happily Adopted: Hiro and Tadashi are both on good terms with their Aunt. Hiro even mentions that he never knew his parents since they died when he was three, but it's obvious he considers Cass his mom.

Hard-Work Montage: Subverted when Hiro sets out to design something impressive for the expo. "Eye of the Tiger" plays, he sets up his drafting space—and then it comes to an abrupt halt when he can't think of anything to design. Then played straight when he comes up with his project, and the scene cuts to a fast-forward montage of Hiro filling up several recycling bins with his microbots.

He Knows Too Much: Fred postulates this is why Yokai tried to kill them because they saw the microbots and Hiro was tracking them.

He Who Fights Monsters: This is what could have happened if Hiro had succeeded in killing Yokai/Callaghan. However, Baymax helps him defy this trope by reminding him of Tadashi and bring him back to his senses.

Head Desk: Hiro does this when he fails to come up with any ideas for the student expo.

Hiro: Nothing! No ideas! Useless, empty brain!

Hollywood Magnetism: GoGo's discs are shown to boomerang back to her when thrown. It's implied that her arm-cuffs are capable of generating a magnetic field that pulls the disc back to her. However, the movie shows the disc being pulled back regardless of how far away she throws it and the attraction only affects the disc instead of all other metal objects in the area.

Tadashi's desire to help ultimately leads to his death. It's certainly courageous that he goes into a building engulfed in flames to save Callaghan, but his decision is especially lacking in reason. There is only a single account that Callaghan is still inside and Tadashi has no rescue skills or equipment nor does he even know where to start looking. Also, Tadashi doesn't consider that his impulsive, younger brother will follow him in, which Hiro attempts to do after a moment's hesitation.

Krei. When Callaghan slanders him about "cutting corners with science" in front of Hiro, whom Krei wants to hire, the businessman only says that he and Callaghan agree to disagree. No mention of the fact that their grievance is over a genuine - if somewhat forewarned - lab accident that was overseen by many experts. It's implied that Krei feels some measure of guilt about Abigail being a casualty and decided not to defend himself - but nevertheless does his best to sway Hiro into his employ.

I Cannot Self-Terminate: One of the reasons Baymax needed Hiro to give the command. Otherwise, Baymax's desire to stay with Hiro and Abigail would have been stronger than his capability to fire his fist.

I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The lab where the portal testing was done (and where the team has their first big fight) is on an island called Akuma Island. "Akuma" is Japanese for "demon."

If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: After almost having Baymax destroy Callaghan, Hiro learns that he would be no different from Callaghan if he killed him out of vengeance for Tadashi like Callaghan is trying to kill Krei out of vengeance for his daughter, so Hiro chooses to spare Callaghan instead of delivering the final blow at the end of their final battle.

In-Name-Only: Aside from the names, the film has very little in common with the comics it's inspired by. A case of Tropes Are Not Bad, as the source material is not as well looked upon due to being a rather Shallow Parody of Japanese media tropes.

Inspired by...: In as much as Frozen could be considered "adapted" from Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, Big Hero 6 takes massive strides with its characters and source material. Marvel has even gone on record that they wanted Disney to make it an original film of their own and have no plans to rerelease the comics which may interfere with the film.

The characters and stories that have appeared in our comics are very different from what they are in the film. We wanted the Disney folks to be able to create their own unique style and story, unencumbered by those older stories.

It's a Small World After All: The group drives off a pier into the water within convenient won't-get-hypothermia-yet walking distance from Fred's house.

It's Personal: Hiro switches into revenge mode after learning that Callaghan views Tadashi's sacrifice as his own foolish mistake.

The Joy of First Flight: Hiro takes Baymax out for a test drive after outfitting him with jets, and after an exhilarating flight through the city, Hiro is overcome with awe.

Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Callaghan. Stole Hiro's microbots to survive a fire? Bad, but not terrible. Attempting to murder the microbots' maker, who is fourteen twice, as well as his former students? He goes way too far.

Narrowly Averted when Hiro attempts to use Baymax to kill Yokai/Robert Callaghan, but both his team and Baymax bring him back to his senses before he could kill him.

Just Between You and Me: Yokai unmasks himself before Krei while rebuilding the portal, monologuing how he's going to deliver poetic justice.

Leeroy Jenkins: The Big Bad has snuck up on the heroes for a surprise attack. Wasabi wants to know what their plan for subduing him is. However, Fred simply launches himself at the villain. It goes as well as you'd expect.

Early on in the film, when Hiro is struggling for ideas for the showcase, Tadashi tells him to "look for a new angle." During the film's climax, when it appears that the team is about to be defeated by Yokai's microbots, Hiro tells them to "look for a new angle."

Tadashi's last words to his brother are, "Somebody has to help!" before he enters the burning building. When Hiro decides to risk himself and Baymax to rescue the person trapped beyond the portal, he repeats this line to his team.

The tearjerker line from Baymax: "I cannot deactivate until you say you are satisfied with your care."

In a heartwarming scene in The Stinger, Fred's father repeats the line about wearing the pans inside out, front and back.

Milking the Giant Cow: Yokai is a creepily quiet villain, but given to sweeping gestures that indicate the commands he is giving to the microbots.

Mobstacle Course: Hiro constantly bumps into people when trying to follow Baymax through the streets of the city.

Mook Horror Show: Yokai AKA Professor Callaghan isn't a mook but the villain, but he's scared for his life when Hiro removes the healthcare memory card and makes Baymax operate solely on the combat card.

Morality Chain Beyond the Grave: Baymax asks Hiro if terminating Professor Callaghan will improve his emotional state, he then follows up with asking if this is what Tadashi would have wanted.

A subtle one at the end when Callaghan is being led into a police car. He wears a defeated, disturbed expression when he realizes his daughter was alive and he threw away everything else that mattered in his life for nothing.

Baymax apologizes to the team after Honey Lemon gives him back his healthcare chip saying "I regret any distress I may have caused".

Fred once asked Honey Lemon to devise a formula for him that would allow him to turn into a giant lizard monster at will. This is pretty close to his superpower in the Big Hero 6 comics. Also serves as Foreshadowing.

Honey kissing Hiro is a nod to the fact she and Hiro were love interests in the original comic book, before he met someone closer to his own age.

The costumes of several obscure Marvel characters can be seen in Fred's room. These include Sleepwalker, Black Talon, Orka, and Manphibian.

There is a statue in Fred's house that looks almost identical to his Kaiju form in the comics, just with an extra pair of arms.

Prince Hans from Frozen has two easter egg appearances: first on a "wanted" poster at the San Fransokyo police station behind the police officer's desk, and later on, as a statue in the garden of Fred's mansion that gets smashed by Baymax's rocket fist.

Nanomachines: The microbots act like them, though individual units are quite visible with the naked eye.

Never Found the Body: After the fire at the expo center, we see a memorial service held on the school steps with pictures of the victims on display followed by a funeral service at a grave site. Because we learn that Callaghan faked his death his remains would never be recovered and the grave is for Tadashi.

Never Say "Die": A downplayed example occurs after Hiro learns that Yokai is Callaghan who has dismissed Tadashi's sacrifice as being a mistake. In his grief and rage over what he now knows is his brother's Senseless Sacrifice, he orders Baymax to "destroy" him and in a later conversation they use the term "terminate". Even though the intention of causing Callaghan's death is very clear, it is dealing with the case of the hero being willing to commit murder that shifts the dialog into slightly more vague terminology. However, this is primarily done to allow the story to deal with Hiro's grief even as his actions have skirted close to a moral event horizon.

Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Odd variants—while Hiro's wrath does allow Callaghan to get away, it does allow his ultimate plan, using the portal that sucked in Callaghan's daughter to succeed... and if it hadn't, Baymax would have never detected Callaghan's daughter on the other side of the portal, leaving her forever lost in the void.

No Hugging, No Kissing: Well, lots of hugging and a couple of cheek kisses, but as far as romance goes, there is none.

Not So Different: When Hiro confronts Yokai as he's destroying Krei Headquarters,Hiro tries to talk Callaghan down asking if Abigail would have wanted him to do what he's doing. Hiro then acknowledges their joint hurt at having lost a loved one saying "This won't change anything. Trust me, I know".

Not What I Signed on For: Wasabi invokes this trope almost verbatim when confronting Hiro after he attempts to have Baymax kill Callaghan.

The first two times he activates, he takes forever to cross the room to Hiro and we get to see every glorious second of it: he looks down, considers, sidles left, looks down, considers, turns, looks down, considers, sidles left again...

When stuck in a window, he slooooowly deflates.

While at the police station, he has some holes in his left arm, which begin deflating... loudly. He then methodically borrows some tape from a policeman's desk and plugs the holes one by one. Once he finishes, his right arm starts leaking...

Parental Abandonment: Hiro and Tadashi's parents were both killed in an unspecified accident when Hiro was three.

Parental Obliviousness: In one scene, it's painfully obvious that Hiro is trying to hide something, yet Aunt Cass doesn't notice at all. CinemaSins called this out: "Aunt Cass apparently has never seen anyone act suspicious before."

Personal Arcade: Fred has several arcade video game cabinets among the action figures and comic books in his mansion.

Personality Chip: Baymax has a base personality/medical one installed by Tadashi with more slots in the port for more skills. This comes in handy when Baymax gives it to Hiro before his Heroic Sacrifice at the end, allowing Hiro to restore his personality when his original body is lost.

Pink Means Feminine: Honey Lemon wears a lot of pink as part of her superhero persona. Plus, when Tadashi introduces her to Hiro, she demonstrates her metal embrittlement compound, which turns a four-hundred pound ball of tungsten carbide pink before converting it to dust.

Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Hiro's Megabot, which (intentionally) looks small and pathetic in comparison to the large, intimidating battle bots of the San Fransokyo gambling rings, but dismantles Mr. Yama's larger bot with ease.

Playing Games At Work: When Hiro leaves a police office after trying to file a report about a supervillain, a game of Solitaire can be seen on the policeman's computer screen.

Please, I Will Do Anything!: Alistair Krei offers this to get Yokai to spare him at the climax, but it backfires due to the nature of Yokai's motivation (he believes that Krei needlessly risked his daughter's life for profit, so he sees Krei's implicit offer of money as further evidence that Krei regarded her life as nothing more than a commodity).

When Hiro goes to the police station to report his encounter with Yokai, the desk officer is naturally skeptical of his claim that a man in a kabuki mask attacked him with an army of flying mind-controlled microbots. However, the officer does not dismiss Hiro out-right, displays remarkable patience going through his account, and is even shown filing a report. It's only when Hiro is unable to produce any evidence for his statements and Baymax begins to lose power and behave like he was "drunk" that the officer turns his focus toward contacting Hiro's parents.

After the final battle once Hiro gets Abigail out of the portal, the police arrive to stabilize the situation at Krei Tech HQ, and take Callaghan into custody. They also call the paramedics who immediately help Abigail.

Popping Buttons: The first trailer has Hiro learning what happens when you try to stuff a large, squishy robot like Baymax into armor that he could barely fit into.

Portal Door: The teleporter is an opening into an alternate dimension that connects the two portals.

What happens (in the teaser) when Hiro tries to shove the squishy, pear-shaped Baymax (who is essentially a hugging robot) into a suit of armor. After a few seconds of looking heroic in it, all the armor promptly pops off.

After his first encounter with Yokai, Hiro goes straight to the police station files a report for the police to investigate however Hiro's story is quite outlandish and lacking in much detail to help an official investigation. However, the desk officer, while skeptical, does file the report.

When the team faced Yokai for the first time, they were completely unprepared due to the fact they had no actual combat experience and only had minimal practice time to adjust to their Powered Armor. They ended up causing more harm to their own teammates than to the villain.

Precocious as he is, Hiro still has the psyche of a young boy. When he manages to disarm Yokai and realizes he's Callahan, who not only stole his invention but callously dismisses Tadashi's death as his own mistake Hiro in his anger and grief orders Baymax to destroy him.

The video clip of Tadashi shows that it took dozens of attempts just to get Baymax to start up right, with him having to repeatedly work out the various kinks that kept popping up each time. Almost any engineering student can attest to the Truth in Television.

Wasabi may have high-tech plasma blades that can cut through a thick metal door like butter. It still doesn't mean he can draw a circle free-hand and get it right on the first try.

Reed Richards Is Useless: Tadashi averts this; with Baymax he hopes to help millions of people, and he left enough schematics around for Hiro to rebuild the Baymax he knew. Hiro was going to avert this with his microbots as well, before the fire destroyed his prototype and he lost his motivation with Tadashi dead. Maybe once he applies himself, though . . .

Revenge: A driving theme of the movie is that vengeance, while an understandable desire, is a corrupting emotion and generally leads to compromising your own moral principles: Professor Callaghan became Yokai to avenge his daughter's apparent death, becoming He Who Fights Monsters in the process, and this almost happens to Hiro as well in his desire to avenge Tadashi on first Krei, and later Callaghan.

Rewind, Replay, Repeat: When Hiro and company find the footage from Project Silent Sparrow, they rewind several parts and replay them as they try to piece together who Yokai is and what his motive could be.

Baymax fist-bumping and saying "Bata-lata-la". (An Enforced one, as well: Scott Adsit made the sound and the directors included it every last chance they got.)

Stan Lee's habit of inserting himself as cameos into Marvel movies, comics, and cartoons.

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Sarcasm-Blind: Baymax during the first part of the film. This ends up playing into Hiro discovering the Big Bad and his Evil Plan, as Hiro sarcastically suggests that Baymax figure out where his last microbot is trying to go in order to improve his mental health.

San Fransokyo is gorgeous. The rendering was so intensive to get the level of detail that was achieved (with special computational engines designed to create both the background characters and all the trees as well as the texture modelling and lighting) that Disney had to create their own supercomputer cluster just to get what they were after.

The world beyond the portal, a vast cloud of brilliant colours with rubble from Krei Industries making some nice Scenery Gorn to go with.

Senseless Sacrifice: Tadashi went into the burning science hall to save Professor Callaghan at the cost of his own life. It's later revealed that the microbots protected Callaghan from the fire. Hiro is barely able to keep it together as he learns his brother died for nothing, but Callaghan saying that Tadashi made a mistake for even trying sends Hiro right off the deep end.

Shadow Archetype: Callaghan/Yokai is one to Hiro—brilliant, but driven by revenge to the point of throwing away his morals because of the loss of a family member, which both of them perceive to be someone's "fault". While Hiro is pulled back from the edge before he goes too far, Callaghan isn't.

In creating the film's version of Baymax, Disney's Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter had the Big Hero 6 team do a lot of research into robotics, with the help of places like Caltech. Baymax being made from inflatable vinyl is an actual thing, being developed by engineers at Carnegie Mellon, and even more so for his field of work—"soft robotics" with vinyl won't injure patients when they're picked up or touched.

A McMaster-Carr catalogue is shown on the lab table at the end of the film, found in science and engineering labs around the world.

Honey Lemon mentions actual chemical names. Not only that, but Tungsten Carbide is actually capable of being made into powder quite easily. Her "four hundred pound" ball of it, however, would really be about four thousand (unless it's hollow). Tungsten Carbide is very, very dense.

Honey occasionally pronounces Hiro's name in a manner closer to how it would be pronounced in Japanese, although her voice actress states it to actually be a usage of Latina accent instead.

The 3D printer Hiro uses to make Baymax's first suit of armor is completely realistic apart from being incredibly fast. It prints columns of support material to hold up the parts as they're being printed and the parts' surface finish is exactly what you'd expect from fused deposition modelling. We also see a futuristic (but plausible) 3D printer building up metal parts layer by layer.

In the immediate aftermath of the building fire, there's a Sad-Times Montage and one scene shows a candlelit memorial established on the steps of ruined building that includes photos of the two victims.

A Downplayed and more personal one has Hiro keeping Tadashi's part of the room the way he left it with his baseball cap placed on top of his bed.

Slow-Motion Fall: When Baymax and Hiro fall from the window at the secret microbot factory, the scene goes into slow motion.

Spiritual Antithesis: To The Incredibles, which featured a predominantly white, nuclear Badass Family (and a token minority) with innate superpowers facing a tech-based villain, his gun-wielding mooks and his robot. Their setting is retro fifties-flavored suburbia, and while they don't deliberately kill the villains, if they die while attacking the heroes no one's upset. This movie, on the other hand, features a racially diverse line-up of friends united by an orphan, as heroes with their powers derived from technology and individual expertise—with a robot among their ranks—while the villain is definitely a solo act and motivated by the loss of his daughter. Their setting is neon, skyscrapers and advanced cybernetics, Thou Shalt Not Kill is in play, and high technology is central to all elements of the plot.

Squick: In-universe. After Fred regales the group with how he manages to get 4 days out of his underwear, Wasabi visibly and audibly heaves.

Staircase Tumble: After Hiro lunges at Yokai and successfully knocks his mask off, they both fall down the stairs.

The Stinger: A somber moment with Fred with a cameo from Stan Lee, who is both Fred's dad and a superhero!

String Theory: When Hiro investigates the warehouse where Yokai is manufacturing his microbots, he briefly glances over to a wall map of San Fransokyo covered with articles, blueprints and the "silent sparrow" symbol, all connected by red string.

Superhero Origin: The story of how a young robotics genius, three advanced technology students, a school mascot, and a lovable balloon robot come together to do battle against Yokai and his army of microbots.

Fred: Ha-ha! Can you feel it?! You guys, do you feel this?! Our origin story begins! WE'RE GONNA BE SUPERHEROES!

Superhero Paradox: Inverted. The Big Hero 6 is founded with the intention of stopping Yokai.

Take a Third Option: In the climax, Hiro has to encourage the other four to do this to get away from the microbots attacking them, since their normal attacks don't seem to work. Wasabi, pinned between slabs on concrete on either side, cuts into the concrete at his feet to escape. GoGo, trapped in an orb of microbots, starts circling inside them to build up enough heat to burn her way out. Honey, trapped in her own dome of chemicals to protect herself while it is failing, attached her chemicals to the attacking microbots instead to pull herself out. And Fred, with the limbs of his suit seized, realizes that it's like his mascot costume and pulls his arms out of the suit's arms to grab debris to free himself with.

Take My Hand: Hiro and Baymax reach out for each other's hand when drifting in the portal dimension.

Taught by Experience: Baymax locks Hiro out of accessing his healthcare chip after Hiro removed it to make him murder Callaghan.

Team Shot: Used when they get inspired to create a superhero team, while looking at some of Fred's superhero art. And again with the Fly-at-the-Camera Ending followed by the title card.

Team Title: Like the comic counterpart, the six heroes will don the superhero team title "Big Hero 6".

During the sequence where Baymax is following the microbot and Hiro is running after him, occasionally tripping over or running into things which includes an off-screen cat in one of the alleyways.

When Aunt Cass hears a sound from upstairs and wonders what it was, Hiro makes up the excuse that it was Mochi, until he looks down and sees the cat rubbing up against his legs. While Cass' back is turned, Hiro then tosses Mochi upstairs.

There Are No Therapists: Zig-zagged. There's no mention of Hiro receiving therapy or counselling after Tadashi's death, even though he's showing obvious signs of severe depression for several weeks. However, after he tells Baymax that his pain is emotional rather than physical, Baymax downloads information on grief counselling and makes it his objective to improve Hiro's emotional state.

They Fight Crime!: He's a boy genius reeling from the loss of his big brother! He's an inflatable medical robot! Together, they fight a supervillain!

Thou Shalt Not Kill: Baymax has this built in as a primary protocol. It can be removed, as Hiro later demonstrates, though upon reinstalling Baymax locks the access port to prevent it from happening again. The rest of the team was also less than thrilled when Hiro does the above, and are adamant about catching Yokai, not killing him, especially when he's defenseless.

First Hiro interrupts Yokai when the latter is about to smash his team-mates with a giant column of microbots.

Later Honey Lemon stops Baymax from launching his rocket fist at Yokai who is escaping the site.

Too Dumb to Live: Tadashi. He doesn't just run into a burning building—he runs into a multi-story building that's engulfed in flame from end to end, pouring out noxious black smoke and visibly on the cusp of exploding, intending to save Professor Callaghan even though he doesn't know where he is. It ends as tragically as you'd expect

The trailers never really tried to hide the fact that Tadashi dies, although it happens early in the film.

The advertising in the UK shows Hiro wanting to kill Yokai.

Train Escape: During the car chase, the team manages to put a moving train between them and Yokai. It doesn't throw him off for long though.

Translation Style Choices: There are a lot of interesting differences between the mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan translations. None of them tried to phonetically translate Baymax: mainland used "Big White", Taiwan (somehow) got "Cup Noodle", and Hong Kong is the only version to incorporate his original purpose: "Medical God", which is incidentally the same name as the translated name of House. Another case is Honey Lemon: Taiwan translated it fully phonetically, resulting in a name that has no apparent meaning but definitely looks pretty, Hong Kong literally made her share her name with the honey lemonade drink, and mainland is stuck in between the two with "Honey" translated phonetically and "Lemon" by its meaning and is left with a rather awkward name.

Trapped in a Sinking Car: Downplayed. The team drives off a pier and their car promptly sinks to the bottom of the bay, however, except for showing Hiro struggling with his seat belt for a few seconds, the team evacuates the car without a problem since it is missing one of its doors at this point. Baymax, who is shown removing his armor, acts as an emergency flotation device that gets them quickly to the surface.

Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The citizens of San Fransokyo brake for an inflatable robot jaywalker, but there's no indication that they regard this as an unusual problem.

Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Though Tadashi was a well-intentioned and supportive big brother when he inspires Hiro to create the microbots, it results in tragic consequences. Callaghan decides to steal the microbots to use in his plan to destroy Krei and his company. Then when Callaghan uses the expo fire to cover the theft and fake his own death, it also results in the death of Tadashi when he enters the burning building to try and save Callaghan.

Van in Black: Subverted. While Hiro and Baymax explore the warehouse at night where Yokai kept the microbots. They are being tailed by a slow-moving car, with no clue who's driving. Turns out the driver of the car was Wasabi, with GoGo, Honey and Fred riding along, all wanting to help Hiro.

The 'Verse: This universe is designated Earth-14123 in the overall Marvel Multiverse.

Villain Has a Point: Callaghan is brutally honest in pointing out that Tadashi was Too Dumb to Live by running into a burning building to save him, but his timing couldn't have been worse as he is unmasked and depowered and his insensitive statement pushes Hiro's Berserk Button.

Hiro: It's over, Krei. [Without his mask, Yokai stands up and turns around to Hiro, revealing him to be Callaghan. Hiro and the gang are visibly shocked.]P-Professor Callaghan? The explosion... you died.Robert Callaghan:No. I had your microbots. [a flashback shows Callaghan using Hiro's microbots to protect himself from the fire earlier in the film]Hiro:But... Tadashi... You just let him die...Robert Callaghan:[coldly] Give me the mask, Hiro.Hiro:He went in there to SAVE you!Robert Callaghan:That was HIS mistake! [Baymax comes over to Hiro, who is feeling betrayed and angry that Callaghan would coldly dismiss Tadashi's death as his own fault.]Hiro:[pointing to Callaghan, darkly] Baymax... destroy! [Callaghan looks at Baymax and Hiro, horrified]Baymax:My programming prevents me from injuring a human being.Hiro:Not anymore. [opens Baymax's access port, removing Tadashi's health care disc and leaving only the fighting disc]Baymax:Hiro, this is not what... [Hiro slams the access port closed, Baymax's eyes turn red]** When the teleportation device is collapsing in the climax.

When Callaghan and his microbots descend on Krei's press conference during the climax, Krei's eyes go wide with terror, and his irises visibly narrow.

Happens with Honey Lemon after she replaces Baymax's personality chip during his rampage; we see a shot of her from Baymax's point of view once his personality is restored, breathing hard and staring up at him in terror and uncertainty.

Within Parameters: While conducting the portal test, one of the technicians notes that some readings are off, but his boss responds with this trope to ensure it continues, likely because the military is watching the experiment.

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